91.   While many regional cooperation and trade regimes initiatives had failed in the past in Africa, the new climate on the continent gave Zoellick cause for optimism.

92.   We want to create a new climate.

93.   The assassination last month of Israeli prime minitser Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish extremist opposed to peace with Arabs appears to have created a new climate of compromise.

94.   The brave but ineffective measure was swept away when the Soviet Union collapsed, and in the new democratic climate vodka soon became an election issue.